Black Forest Cake (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte)
Black Forest Cake (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte)

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, black forest cake (schwarzwälder kirschtorte). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Wer kennt sie nicht, diese klassische Torte aus deutschen Landen? Um es gleich vorweg zu sagen: Ich zeige heute eine Variante für Kinder oder Abstinenzler. It is frosted with whipped cream and covered with chocolate shavings and a few cherries for Called Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte in German, which means Black Forest Cherry Torte or Gateau.

Black Forest Cake (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Black Forest Cake (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte) is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have black forest cake (schwarzwälder kirschtorte) using 19 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Black Forest Cake (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte):
  1. Prepare A. Cherries
  2. Take 700 ml jar of Morello Cherries in syrup
  3. Get 4 tablespoons Kirsch or Cherry Brandy
  4. Prepare 50 g granulated white sugar
  5. Get B. Cake
  6. Take 3 egg yolks
  7. Take 75 gr chocolate couverture 55%, melted
  8. Prepare 15 gr cocoa powder
  9. Make ready 35 gr hot water
  10. Make ready 40 gr oil
  11. Make ready 1 tbsp vanilla
  12. Take pinch salt
  13. Get 25 gr flour
  14. Take 3 egg white
  15. Prepare 60 gr sugar (divided)
  16. Prepare C. Whipped Cream Frosting
  17. Get 450 ml heavy whipping cream (double cream) (35% butterfat)
  18. Get 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  19. Get 20 g granulated white sugar

Black Forest Cake is one rich and decadent cake. Homemade cake, sour cherry filling, and topped with whipped cream. Everything about this rich black forest cake is mouthwatering. This classic German cake (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte), is moist, flavorful, and a crowd favorite.

Steps to make Black Forest Cake (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte):
  1. Cherries: Drain the cherries, reserving the liquid. Place the cherries in a bowl and toss with 2 tablespoons Kirsch. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and set aside. Place 1 cup (240 ml) of the reserved cherry syrup in a small saucepan, along with the sugar, and heat until sugar has dissolved. Remove from heat, add 2 tablespoons Kirsch, and let cool.
  2. For the cake: Preheat oven to 150oC. Butter, or spray with a non stick spray, a 16cm round cake pan and line the bottom of pan with parchment or wax paper.
  3. Mix cocoa powder with hot water and oil, add to melted chocolate. mix well. add in vanilla and salt.
  4. Whisk egg yolk and a third of sugar until pale, add in chocolate mixture. mix well. then fold in flour.
  5. Whisk egg white and rest of sugar until stiff.
  6. Fold in meringue into egg yolk mixture.
  7. Pour into prepared pan
  8. Bake at 150oC for 50-60mins or until done. (A little crack due to my oven temperature) 🤓
  9. Whipped Cream Frosting: In your mixing bowl place the whipping cream, vanilla extract, and sugar and stir to combine. Cover and chill the bowl and wire whisk in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes, then beat the mixture just until stiff peaks form.
  10. Assemble Cake: Using a sharp knife, cut the genoise, horizontally, into two layers. Turn over the top layer of the cake (top of cake becomes bottom) and place on your serving plate. Brush the cake layer with 1/4 cup (60 ml) cherry syrup. Take about 200ml whipped cream and spread on the moistened genoise. Place the cherries evenly over the cream. Brush the cut-side of second genoise layer with 1/4 cup (60 ml) syrup. Place cut-side down on top of the cherries, gently pressing to compact.
  11. Reserve 250ml whipped cream and spread the remaining cream over top and sides of cake.
  12. Decorate with fresh cherries, shaved chocolate and chocolate curls.
  13. Ta daaa…

Layers of chocolate cake, black cherries, and kirsch, coated with kirsch infused fresh whipped cream. Often, we would call in at a cafe and enjoy a slice of German Black Forest Cake, or as it was described on the menu, Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte with a lovely cup of freshly brewed coffee. There is more than one black forest cake recipe around, however, an authentic Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte must meet certain standards. It is not certain that the Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte originates in the black forest at all, probably the cake came from Switzerland. Black Forest cherry cake is a popular German dessert consisting of chocolate sponges that are coated in whipped cream and dotted with What is certain is that Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte originated in the Black Forest area and was in all likelihood modeled on the colors of the regional folk dresses.

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